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By: What Todd Bentley could teach Alanis Morissette at Bene Diction Blogs On

What Todd Bentley could teach Alanis Morissette at Bene Diction Blogs On — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:18:46 +0000

[...] King of all Israel. (Recall that Bentley later bragged in one of his restoration videos that he was about “to become a King at Lakeland” before everything went pearshaped for [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:57:37 +0000

I could be wrong, but I don’t think this ministry will ever reach the levels of Lakeland again.

The thing that drew people to Bentley in the past was the need for healing. I was certainly tempted since I have family members that I would like to see healed as well. After Bentley’s healings were proven to be false (on network television), I think that well has dried out for him.

His supporters in the blogosphere seem mostly silent.

Hopefully this assessment is accurate and will remain that way.

RH, BD, I really appreciate that you’ve kept us informed just in case he succeeds in the comeback. It will be good to be forewarned.

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Articles of Interest 11-27-09 | Onward, Forward, Toward... — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:22:14 +0000

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By: Therese

Therese — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:10:29 +0000

…the way to our Promised Land is always through a dry and dreary wilderness – no wilderness, no Promised Land. To follow Jesus is to follow Him through the wilderness, because that’s always where He leads. But it’s a Way that few are willing to take, and few will find…that’s why it says in scripture, “O Lord, grant us a willing spirit to sustain us”. The good news is, that wilderness is taking us Somewhere, and He promises streams and rivers of His Spirit in the wilderness, nowhere else!

By: Therese

Therese — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:47:53 +0000

What Todd desperately needs to do is to cease from his own works, literally, as the word instructs, and just allow the Lord to minister to him for a good long while, like Mary did. That’s what we all need to do – I think just about everybody starts off in the flesh like Moses did, because we want to justify ourselves, want to feel virtuous – not having any experience yet of the Lord working through our emptied vessel, it’s hard to really grasp that He actually will. Sometimes the hardest thing for our flesh to do is to just come to Him, we would rather jump through hoops of fire or leap tall buildings at a single bound than just come. That’s why we must crucify our flesh, starve it to death, wrestle it into submission, carry whatever cross we are given, and the reason I harp on that so much is that I’m preaching to myself! All the time and energy we would spend on works of the flesh we need to literally invest it in spending time in the word and prayer, just being with the Lord, it feels like a waste, planting that corn of wheat in the ground to just die – I bet Moses felt he was wasting his gifted life herding around a bunch of sheep in the middle of nowhere, but look what that eventually qualified him to do – to lead God’s children out of slavery to man (flesh) and the world (Egypt) to find their rest in the Promised Land! And he wasn’t ready until he didn’t want the job anymore.

By: hopeome

hopeome — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:01:43 +0000

Thank you for making me laugh. I was trying to find the words that described what I was watching in Todd Bentleys manner. You said theres no one flying the plane, absolutley right ‘a vacant ‘lot’. God bless

By: Therese

Therese — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:24:51 +0000

Hopeome, that’s so precious, what the Lord did for you regarding the O.T! The fear of the Lord is a funny thing – the fear can motivate us to run to Him instead of away, and it’s a paradox also how we can trust Him in the fear, like Job who said, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” I saw myself in the spirit one time, a very small child hiding behind the Father. holding on to his robe, and kind of peeking out from behind Him to watch the things He was doing. I think staying close behind Him is a safe place to be, it’s when we get in front of Him, getting in His way, doing our own works instead of resting and letting Him do His work, that we can get into trouble! (subject to His grace and mercy, longsuffering and justice – for example, I believe He thankfully distinguishes between the honest mistakes of someone trying to learn how to please Him and wilful, rebellious presumption, and everything in-between).

Todd Bentley looks to me like someone on auto-pilot – it’s like the real T.B. has bailed, and there’s nobody flying the plane – I keep alternating between feeling very sorry for Him one minute and being completely appalled the next!

By: hopeome

hopeome — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:57:58 +0000

I used to be afraid of the old testament because of its language. It used to frighten the life out of me and so I never, if it could be avoided, went to the old testament. I would devour the new testament because Jesus had a great love for people that I wanted.
It was the wrath of god that I couldn’t handle and I lived in fear of doing or saying the wrong thing in case I got whooped by it. In the end I gave up on the old testament and just read about Jesus.

During a time of fasting and prayer some years later I was taken to Daniel, which had made little sense to me, and the lord opened my eyes to its meaning. I was captivated. Then during a further time of fasting I was asked to go deeper, I did and got well and truly taken right , into the old testament. It had been doom and gloom and full of names I couldn’t pronounce, but when he took me through it I began to understand what he was trying to say and why. The language was frightening to my place of being at the time, so he took me to his place.

No disrespect but Todd would make a great car salesman he has the language and the presentation, to sell !

Theresa you have made me think , thank you, language is indeed a powerful thing

By: Therese

Therese — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:54:22 +0000

I think it might have been said here before, but I was reading Galations 1:8-9 today: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!”

Wow, I don’t think stronger, more unequivocal language exists in the universe.

By: hopeome

hopeome — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:44:55 +0000

I remember in one of ‘Benny Hinns’ books he talks about the three annointings and one of them being a ‘kingly annointing’ and Todd speakis of Benny Hinn in one of his videos. Maybe they are all ‘tuned into’ the same god : THE ONE THAT SAYS ‘I AM’ (the great I am). In the meantime people are being mislead into believeing that Todd is the great I AM.

I had wanted to be a healer for some time, I didn’t know exactly what that meant apart from the one thing we all hear about healing ie: the laying on of hands. I used to get hurt at not being able to help people and so in my naive way one day I said LORD I WANT TO BE A HEALER. His response: You have to take the whole package not just a part of me.

Todds looking for sensationalism, fame and fortune.

Me; I was looking for answers; still am, he’s never failed me yet, but some of the answers have hurt and in the agony he’s had to hang onto my heart to stop it failing.

It hurts to walk with him and Todd isn’t